Sociology Final

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Culture

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All of the shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects and beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group.

Give example- language, ideas, clothes, beliefs

Front 2

Cultural Universals

Back 2

Common features that are found in all human cultures

Give example-religion

Front 3

Subcultures

Back 3

Group with its own unique values, norms and behavior that exist within a larger culture

Example-amish, chinatown, uses american and chinese traditions

Front 4

Ethnocentrism

Back 4

Tendency to view ones own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups

Example-americans

Front 5

Values

Back 5

Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

Example- a culture may value war and strength and be aggressive

Front 6

Norms

Back 6

Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

Example- democracy is reinforced through norms governing respect for the flag and treatment of elected officals

Front 7

Sanctions

Back 7

Rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity norms

Example-praise for good behavior or grounded for bad behavior

Front 8

Deviance

Back 8

behavior that violates significant social norms

Example- attacking a person with a weapon

Front 9

Socialization

Back 9

interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society.

Example- learning right and wrong from your parents

Front 10

Sterotyping

Back 10

Oversimplified, exaggerated or unfavorable generalization about a category of people

Example- all aferican americans are lazy or natural athletes

Front 11

Social Stratification

Back 11

Ranking of individuals or catagories of people on the basis of unequal access to scarce resources and social rewards

Example- the caste system

Front 12

Prejudice

Back 12

unsupported generalization about a category of people

Example-refers to attitudes white supremacy

Front 13

Minorities

Back 13

Category of people who share physical characteristics or cultural practices that result in the group being denied equal treatment

Example-Haitians in the US treated different becauuse or racial and ethnic backrounds

Front 14

Polygamy

Back 14

Marriage with multiple partners

Example- man marrying multiple women

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Patrilineal

Back 15

Kinship is only traced through the fathers side of the family

Front 16

Ideology

Back 16

system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religious, political, or economic intrests held by a social group or society

Example-the belief that woman should have equal rights during the womens movement

Front 17

Propaganda

Back 17

organized and deliberate attempt to shape public opinion

Example- using the plain folks appeal to say the public by appealing to the average american

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Zero Population Growth

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Point at which nearly equal birth and death rates produce a growth rate of zero

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Urbanization

Back 19

Occurs when large numbers of people locate themselves in the same geographic location.

This produces congestion, differences in people(attitudes,races,backrounds,income), people conflicts, more houses businesses and people

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Demography

Back 20

The study of population and population movement as the population grows and people change

Front 21

Gentrification

Back 21

process trying to put young upwardly mobile families living in the central cities

selling a house cheap with stipulations to make the housing values go up

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Sociology

Back 22

science that studies human society and social behavior